The time entered the third year of Jian'an, that is, in 198 AD.

On the day Cao Cao was expelled from Shouchun by Zhang Xiu, the climate in Huainan changed abruptly. The land of Huainan, which has been in drought for half a year, has finally rained.

Zhang Xiu was in charge, reinstated the food supply planning system, and targeted all the big families who took advantage of the situation to bully the lower-class people during Cao Cao's stay in Huainan, Zhang Xiu was ruthless, confiscated all the family assets, all the clansmen were demoted to commoners and moved out of the county, and the servants were all sent to the Tuntian army.

Zhang Xiu's hand came very suddenly, this time he didn't give the family time to react at all, Zhang Xiu directly used strong means to smack to the end!

Many of the stricken families finally came back to their senses, and they scolded Zhang Xiu for being shameless and despicable, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, unloading and killing donkeys.

However, their discontent and opposition are overwhelmingly on the lips. The Huainan clans with insufficient strength and conditions all knew that Zhang Xiu was waiting for them to make trouble first, and then they had an excuse to send his die-hard Yongliang army to Huainan to carry out a big purge.

The non-resistance of the family made Zhang Xiu slightly disappointed. That's right, the current Zhang Xiu's mind is indeed the purpose of exterminating the big clan class in Huainan!

Zhang Xiu didn't understand that the rise of the family in this era was an unstoppable historical trend, and he knew that the progress of society was not something he could stop alone. But he also has a last resort, that is, he really needs a stable rear.

Like Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, the fourth and third princes, there is no need to consider whether there is support at all. The illustrious Yuan family was originally the leader and representative of all the great families of this era. If it is said that the common people admire the Shi clan gate valve, then the Shi clan gate valve admires the Yuan family, a super wealthy family like the Yuan family, where the protégés of the fourth generation and the third prince are all over the world!

In this era when Shinong industry and commerce are respected by scholars, and in this era when the concept of official status is deep-rooted, it is an extraordinary honor to be able to have five extremely popular ministers in four generations of the family.

As the saying goes, there are no more than three generations of wealth, but the Yuan family has repeatedly violated common sense. Not only more than three generations, but also extraordinarily played. In the fifth generation, the old Yuan family finally made a breakthrough, that is, the family's sister-in-law Yuan Shu actually got the jade seal and became the emperor!

Although Yuan Shu purely came out to be funny and died, this did not affect the fame of the old Yuan family. As the eldest son of the family, Yuan Shao is now also a general, and he has the right to lead the affairs of the four states of Hebei!

The three dukes in the Eastern Han Dynasty were the three positions of Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong, but Yuan Shao's general was above the three dukes!

Let's talk about the matter of controlling the four states, the thirteen states of the Western Han Dynasty, and Yuan Shao monopolizes the four states, what kind of power is this?

Yuan Shao, whose background is even second only to the royal family, where can he not get support? Not to mention Yuan Shao's hometown Runan, even if he lives in Hebei, the family members who are willing to take the initiative to respect Yuan Shao are also eager to worship him!

This is the reason why Yuan Shao was able to develop so fast, with the support of a rich and well-fed family, why worry about it?

For example, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Liu Zhang in Yizhou, and Liu Miao in Yangzhou are also from royal families. However, their ability and ambition and prestige are slightly inferior to those of the old Yuan family, and they can only eat in a state if they die.

Even if it is Cao Mengde, if he can get up, there is a reason for his background. Cao Cao's father no matter what his reputation is, but he can succeed the eunuch as a godson, and even allow Cao Cao to enter the circle of powerful children in the capital since he was a child, and he can be a classmate with Yuan Shao. In addition, the family is also an official family, and Cao Cao's background is also good. But compared to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's illustrious background, it is too inferior, almost the difference between the sun and the moon, the moon and the stars.

The most vivid example is that after Yuan Shao fled from Luoyang because of his blatant shouting at Dong Zhuo, Dong Zhuo appointed Yuan Shao a position of Bohai Taishou because he was afraid of the Yuan family's forces. In the imperial court, the position of Yuan Shao's uncle Yuan Kui was also retained. And Cao Cao planned to assassinate Dong Zhuo, but he also escaped from Luoyang. But the treatment he received happened to be the opposite of Yuan Shao: he issued documents from all over the world, grabbed Cao Cao and rewarded him with thousands of gold to seal the marquis of ten thousand households, and gave a reward if he died!

Cao Cao, who was not regarded by Dong Zhuo as a family, suffered misfortune, so his life was much more exciting than Yuan Shao. On the way, several popular stories were staged, leaving a lot of legends and mysteries on the rivers and lakes.

Even if Cao Cao, like Yuan Shao, has annexed the land of the four states now, and has controlled the Son of Heaven even better, he has never dared to transfer his official position to a higher position than Yuan Shao. Now it's just a matter of letting Emperor Xian give himself a three-kilometer face, and let Yuan Shu be above him - the general! Although the Son of Heaven was coerced to order the princes, he never issued an order to Yuan Shao.

Because Cao Cao knew what would happen if he provoked Yuan Shao, who didn't have a big stomach and had a good face, Gongsun Zhan's non-long-sighted person was a living example.

Yuan Shao, whose prestige has reached the extreme that a minister can reach, will never mind finding a random one in the Liu family's bloodline on the street to support the new emperor in Hebei. Cao Cao thought that he had no merit in offering the emperor, and the recognition of the princes and families of the world was not much higher than that of the new emperor supported by the old Yuan family.

This is one of the reasons why Yuan Shao was not so enthusiastic and cold about welcoming Emperor Xian back then, anyway, he was a role that could be replaced at any time, why did he have to go to great lengths to grab it. In a word, Hebei you love to come or not, I don't want to go to the church every day and have someone riding on my head anyway.

In addition, there are Jiangdong Sun Ce, Jiaozhou Shijia, and Liaodong Gongsun Family, which are also the leaders of the local families, and they are the rulers who are entrenched in the local area and have absolute support in their respective regions.

Even the lowest-performing Xiliang Ma Teng Han Sui and Youzhou Gongsun Zan are all from strong backgrounds, and with their own military support, they can also divide one side.

But Zhang Xiu, who is a foreigner, is extremely bleak, and it is too difficult for him to show his ambitions in Huainan without any connections. And reality forced him to carry out drastic reforms. Therefore, he has been using various means to attack the strength of the Huainan family, promote middle and lower-level talents, and support small and medium-sized bureaucrats as the real foundation of his own governance!

At the beginning of the drought and famine, Zhang Xiu began his plan. Under the pretext of implementing the grain supply plan, he won over a group of big families with naked interests, and attacked another group of families who were unwilling to give money and grain. This is the first step of differentiation and co-optation.

The second step is to carry out a thorough blow to the Huainan family, whose strength has been greatly weakened. Anyway, few of these big families are clean under their buttocks, Zhang Xiu can always find one or two black sheep who oppress the neighbors and villagers, and then do it with the family. Although in this era, under normal circumstances, the family has been able to represent at least half of the public opinion, but that is only the general situation. And the current famine, drought and military chaos are two situations, the villagers live normally, and if the social order is stable, it is possible to listen to the mercy of the deceased family, but they are already starving to death, how can they have the heart to listen to the preaching of the family.

So, during the period when the family's control over the low-level civilians was at its weakest, Zhang Xiu resolutely launched a purge. Relying on the support of the Yongliang Army, the family that dared to disobey was directly solved with iron and blood.

After the purge, there are only a few families left in Huainan, which are all old families known for their merits and benevolence, and they have always had a good reputation for both officials and people. It is impossible for Zhang Xiu to do things absolutely, just squeeze the power of the family to a minimum.

In the process of purging, Zhang Xiu enabled the controversial system of denunciation and joint sitting since its application, allowing civilians to denounce the black materials of the rich and unkind of the world, and after verification, not only the family was not only pushed to the end, but also the relevant family and wealthy families who did not report it. The wealthy families can also report each other, who still has private food, who has killed innocent tenants or something.

Zhang Xiu himself feels that this method is indeed a bit excessive, which will lead to the lack of "trust" between people, and a mutual suspicion and prevention of Huainan is not what Zhang Xiu wants, so Zhang Xiu regards the verification system as the core of the whistle-blowing and joint sitting system to build, and if there is one, it will be thoroughly investigated, and the whistleblower will be held accountable to the end!

Although this method is detrimental, the effect is also excellent. All kinds of black materials that continue to explode have greatly reduced the trust and respect of the people at the bottom of the family, and constantly reduced the resistance to restructuring. The full grain found from the grain cellars buried dozens of meters deep by those big families has also become a realistic example of impressing the lower-class people to move closer to Zhang Xiu.

As soon as Cao Cao left, the natural disaster and drought disappeared without a trace. The late winter and spring rain in Huainan actually rained for seven days and seven nights in a row!

Countless Huainan people firmly believe that in fact, Cao Cao is the curse sent by God, and Zhang Xiu is their real savior.

I don't know who released the news, let alone where the news first flowed out: the reason why Zhang Xiu adopted iron-blooded measures in the popular uprising was entirely because of the coercion of those parasite clans and the surveillance of the personal generals sent by Cao Cao.

There is also a deeper saying, which circulates among the small and medium-sized bureaucrats and gentry strata: the reason why Zhang Xiu suppressed the popular rebellion ruthlessly, in fact, the real purpose was only to kill fewer hungry people in Huainan. Just imagine, if the hungry people gave up their expectations for Zhang Xiu, then their motives, excuses and hopes for the uprising would be less than half, then there would be much fewer hungry people who took up arms against Cao's army, and even fewer people would be suppressed and killed in the end.

There are many other sayings and versions circulating in Huainan, in short, it boils down to one sentence, Huainan is re-establishing confidence in Zhang Xiu!

Finally, there is great news. That is, Yuan Shao of Hebei sent a heavyweight messenger Xun Chen to meet Zhang Xiu and ask for a good marriage. The wealthy Yuan Datou even directly asked the envoy to bring 300,000 pieces of grain and grass as a meeting gift!

If 300,000 grains and grass are in hand, it can help the people of Huainan to survive the current spring planting season!

For the time being, there is no threat of rebellion, water conservancy facilities are complete, and Huainan with better weather conditions seems to have really ushered in spring!

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